Jenny Hunter
@jennyhunter.bsky.social
Labor lawyer (formerly @seiu), into courts & judicial nominations, writer, consultant, person with kids, watcher of TV, she/her
My time machine isn't working so I can't 100% confirm, but if Obama had named someone who actually excited people, rather than putting them to sleep, then Rs blocking that person could have pissed off potential voters and maybe made a difference in the election
Antonin Scalia’s death 10 years ago today gave the conservative legal movement the chance it had spent decades preparing for. Republicans were ready. Democrats weren’t.
The Conservative Legal Movement Was Ready For Antonin Scalia’s Death
The sequence of events kicked off by Scalia’s death a decade ago might feel improbable. But the right was waiting for its chance to capture the Court, and didn’t let it go to waste.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
My time machine isn't working so I can't 100% confirm, but if Obama had named someone who actually excited people, rather than putting them to sleep, then Rs blocking that person could have pissed off potential voters and maybe made a difference in the election
🔔🔔🔔 “Democratic politicians need to be thinking about Supreme Court reforms now, so that if and when they have a window in which they can implement such reforms, they don’t waste precious time getting organized” 🔔🔔🔔
Antonin Scalia’s death 10 years ago today gave the conservative legal movement the chance it had spent decades preparing for. Republicans were ready. Democrats weren’t.
The Conservative Legal Movement Was Ready For Antonin Scalia’s Death
The sequence of events kicked off by Scalia’s death a decade ago might feel improbable. But the right was waiting for its chance to capture the Court, and didn’t let it go to waste.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:34 PM
🔔🔔🔔 “Democratic politicians need to be thinking about Supreme Court reforms now, so that if and when they have a window in which they can implement such reforms, they don’t waste precious time getting organized” 🔔🔔🔔
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I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
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USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
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CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
He can't explain what he meant by "erasure of white culture" b/c what he actually means is white people are superior to non-white (and Latino) people and should hold all the political and cultural and economic power
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 11:17 PM
He can't explain what he meant by "erasure of white culture" b/c what he actually means is white people are superior to non-white (and Latino) people and should hold all the political and cultural and economic power
WHY INDEED
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. So why do they keep voting to confirm those nominees, too?
Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees?
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to confirm them.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:41 PM
WHY INDEED
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The Trump administration is forcing child rape victims to give birth in captivity in Texas. I sound like an insane person but that is actually what this news story says
They aren't forced birthers; they're just jailing people — some of them sexual-assault survivors as young as 13 — in Texas during their pregnancies, where they'll be prevented from accessing abortion.
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The Trump administration is forcing child rape victims to give birth in captivity in Texas. I sound like an insane person but that is actually what this news story says
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Erik’s This Day in Labor History posts are so good—concise, gripping, and guaranteed to make you more informed about American history AND our current predicament. Check out the Flint sit-down strike of 1937!
This Day in Labor History: February 11, 1937. The Flint Sit-Down strike ended after General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers at the bargaining agent for GM employees. This legitimized the CIO, ushering in the nation’s great period of industrial unionism. But soon, sit-downs would be illegal
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Erik’s This Day in Labor History posts are so good—concise, gripping, and guaranteed to make you more informed about American history AND our current predicament. Check out the Flint sit-down strike of 1937!
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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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Rep. Thomas Massie has identified Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem as the recipient of the “I loved the torture video” email from disgraced sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The sultan’s name was initially redacted. trib.al/4JFz90n
DOJ Identifies UAE Sultan Behind Epstein Email on Torture Video
Members of Congress are slowly pressuring the Justice Department to identify redacted names in the Epstein files.
trib.al
February 10, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Rep. Thomas Massie has identified Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem as the recipient of the “I loved the torture video” email from disgraced sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The sultan’s name was initially redacted. trib.al/4JFz90n
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
Many people can understand cisgender teens getting gender affirming surgery. Think of a a 16 year old girl who can’t run comfortably bc her breasts are too big, or a boy with enlarged breasts who is too embarrassed to go out without a sweatshirt in summer. Just grant trans kids the same humanity
If you're the mom or dad of a son who is isolated and unable to engage with peers because he's so self conscious about having breasts you deserve at least the option to consider whether surgery might be the thing he needs.
February 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Many people can understand cisgender teens getting gender affirming surgery. Think of a a 16 year old girl who can’t run comfortably bc her breasts are too big, or a boy with enlarged breasts who is too embarrassed to go out without a sweatshirt in summer. Just grant trans kids the same humanity
Heartbreaking and infuriating letters from detained children
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Heartbreaking and infuriating letters from detained children
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
“Claude, fill the Internet with images of women but they’re all the same woman, like a Disney princess with mussed hair”
February 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
“Claude, fill the Internet with images of women but they’re all the same woman, like a Disney princess with mussed hair”
Do not go gentle into the post-storm period,
Neighborhood listservs should burn and rave at the uncleared snow piles;
Rage, rage against the delayed trash pickup.
Neighborhood listservs should burn and rave at the uncleared snow piles;
Rage, rage against the delayed trash pickup.
February 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Do not go gentle into the post-storm period,
Neighborhood listservs should burn and rave at the uncleared snow piles;
Rage, rage against the delayed trash pickup.
Neighborhood listservs should burn and rave at the uncleared snow piles;
Rage, rage against the delayed trash pickup.
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers:
"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."
Let's bring this energy to 2026:
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"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."
Let's bring this energy to 2026:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #137: Po' Boy
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
buttondown.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers:
"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."
Let's bring this energy to 2026:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."
Let's bring this energy to 2026:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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"The Washington Post deserves a better owner than this."
Former global opinion editor @karenattiah.bsky.social slams billionaire Jeff Bezos for gutting the storied newspaper.
Former global opinion editor @karenattiah.bsky.social slams billionaire Jeff Bezos for gutting the storied newspaper.
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
"The Washington Post deserves a better owner than this."
Former global opinion editor @karenattiah.bsky.social slams billionaire Jeff Bezos for gutting the storied newspaper.
Former global opinion editor @karenattiah.bsky.social slams billionaire Jeff Bezos for gutting the storied newspaper.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...